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| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/17/25 10:59:25 PM #242 | I had a cogfly last from --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/15/25 11:59:09 AM #186 | Sherma's a guy going by one of the wishes to find him. Also I think most bugs are gendered, it's just the only child of the pale king with a gender is Hornet. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/15/25 8:35:16 AM #175 | Xiahou_Shake posted... I know I'm going to get some undesirable details spoiled for me if I Google this, so can anyone give me a nudge as to what I need to do to get to --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/14/25 10:17:51 PM #154 | Silkeaters plus fractured mask makes for a pretty safe time on runbacks, because you don't need to silkeater until the mask breaks --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/14/25 9:29:42 PM #148 | I'll admit to being slightly tilted when I learned I was being held back from Act 3 by --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/14/25 7:46:32 PM #140 | True ending down, 86% completion. Definitely a much bigger game than HK, I might take a break before going back for the remaining stuff. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/14/25 4:46:23 PM #136 | I don't think there was a judge on the path I took for the runback, so I dunno. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/12/25 6:56:34 PM #84 | I mean, I just watched a video by a speedrunner who full binding P5'd and even they've been got multiple times by early bosses. So yeah, congrats on being an outlier, haha --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/12/25 12:23:32 AM #70 | Well, I think I've gone through every immediately open path on the map. Whatever I need to do next it's gonna involve figuring out where to backtrack to. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Silksong Topic 2 - It was the best of sequels, it was the worst of sequels |
| JeffreyRaze 09/11/25 10:23:37 AM #33 | kevwaffles posted... Beat the game without finding any sort ofSame here, I thought I was missing something to get it, so I did basically everything else first lol. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement |
| JeffreyRaze 09/06/25 1:06:26 PM #268 | One of the major things that makes Silksong more difficult than Hollow Knight is how much less room you have to learn the boss mid fight. In HK, I beat most bosses first try, but I spent a lot of that time at 1hp, desperately healing, then getting hit immediately after the heal finished (which is a deliberate timing choice by the devs I think). That time healing is more time to read the boss, feel out where the actual gaps in the attack patterns are. In Silksong, if you get hit once you're often going to be hit again right after. That's 4 masks gone very quickly. Enemies are just that much faster, hit that much harder. That's not a bad thing, but it does mean that it's going to be harder to learn in a single encounter. I will say dash made things a lot easier, because you can just go "boss is doing something, bail to the other end of the arena". HK is a slower paced game with simpler combat than Silksong. I'm enjoying Silksong wholeheartedly, but it is kicking my teeth in in a way HK never did until postgame. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement |
| JeffreyRaze 09/04/25 7:30:12 PM #165 | I don't know what it is, but I'm an hour in and I've died more than in my entire first playthrough of HK (sans NKG). --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Red pill me on Minecraft. |
| JeffreyRaze 08/03/25 1:01:30 PM #18 | It's first person lego. It's fun to make stuff out of the basic bricks, and if you feel like getting more invested you grab a modpack and see what the fancier bricks can do. If you're the sort of person who doesn't enjoy making stuff for the sake of making stuff, minecraft is gonna be boring as hell. Otherwise, it's a good time. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Deltarune is out. |
| JeffreyRaze 06/23/25 11:37:41 AM #207 | Anagram posted...
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| Topic | Deltarune is out. |
| JeffreyRaze 06/16/25 12:43:23 PM #92 | I think I stopped trying to look ahead and just trying to move slightly away from the red ones. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Deltarune is out. |
| JeffreyRaze 06/15/25 8:24:03 PM #84 | Honestly I'm deeply in love with some of the character moments in chapter 3. Chapter 4 I always felt like I was gonna miss something in the dark rooms. Didn't much care for them. Everything else was pretty great, especially the lightworld side of things Probably the biggest thing that helps pacifist Jevil is figuring out how pirouette works. Knowing which turns to avoid it and which to actively use it can make things a lot easier. Still probably the second hardest to beat I'd say. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Think of a job/class from an RPG game |
| JeffreyRaze 06/09/25 9:52:43 PM #54 | Arcanist is an odd one for sure, but that might help actually. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Name games where it feels the best to level up in |
| JeffreyRaze 05/11/25 11:50:48 AM #18 | Etrian Odyssey's my pick. If you've got a plan, seeing that plan get ever closer to reality is such a good feeling. Any TTRPG is a really good option too. Only 20 levels means each one has some impact, depending on the system of course. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 458: That's On Top Of The 20% Fentanyl Tax |
| JeffreyRaze 04/23/25 4:21:44 PM #284 | Sorry for derailing a bit, I just hate seeing people talk past eachother. Definitely a pet peeve of mine. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 458: That's On Top Of The 20% Fentanyl Tax |
| JeffreyRaze 04/23/25 3:59:03 PM #277 | Lopen posted... I guess because that's a stupid question only an ignorant person or someone who is fiending for reasons to be outraged would care about. Politics should always be about finding your best option. If it's right vs far right on an issue you should be wanting right to win.Okay, but whether or not you think the point being made is dumb, can you at least concede that you missed it and you were arguing against a position that had not been stated? --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 458: That's On Top Of The 20% Fentanyl Tax |
| JeffreyRaze 04/23/25 3:51:21 PM #275 | Lopen posted... I just don't see why there's an apology due if the option voted for was the best one. It feels like demanding vindication for something you're mostly ignorant of on a technicality....Because they said something that turned out to be correct and were attacked because of it? The other parties are completely irrelevant to this whole thing, which is why you're being called out for attacking a strawman. The question was never about which party was best, it was entirely whether or not Labour would also be bad on this issue, and Grimlyn being attacked for saying they would be bad. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 458: That's On Top Of The 20% Fentanyl Tax |
| JeffreyRaze 04/23/25 3:34:27 PM #268 | Lopen posted... I don't think others actually said that verbatim though. Pretty sure that's the strawman here.Even if it's a strawman, if it's the argument being made you not addressing it would mean you've completely misread the argument though. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 458: That's On Top Of The 20% Fentanyl Tax |
| JeffreyRaze 04/23/25 3:11:46 PM #262 | So to summarize: Grimlyn: Even if [good thing] happens, [bad thing] will happen. Others: No, [good thing] will prevent [bad thing], you're being hysterical. [good thing] and [bad thing] both happen. Grimlyn: I was right. Lopen: No, you were wrong because [bad thing] would be worse without [good thing]. Do I have that right? --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 456: Dedicated to the ICE Agents Monitoring Board 8 |
| JeffreyRaze 03/20/25 3:21:29 PM #54 | I believe there were studies that showed social harm triggers the same parts of the brain as physical pain. So for people who've tied up their self esteem with their worldview admitting they're wrong about that stuff would be as difficult as willingly sticking their hand in a fire. It's a self-preservation mechanism gone wrong. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 454: King Nothing |
| JeffreyRaze 02/26/25 12:57:47 PM #322 | foolm0r0n posted... That's not what tragedy of the commons is. It's about no one doing anything because they assume "someone else will do it, and I'm not the best one to do it, so I'll do nothing". Government and taxes in particular massively boost this effect. It's a huge hidden cost to all public programs that must be weighed. What? No, tragedy of the commons is when a shared resource is destroyed because it's optimal for each individual to overuse it despite that being a negative for them in the long run. Man, this is spiralling out of control a bit, I just wanted to say I disagreed with that one premise >_> --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 454: King Nothing |
| JeffreyRaze 02/26/25 12:11:25 PM #310 | foolm0r0n posted... There is no such thing as prisoner's dilemma on a massive scale. At best it's the iterated prisoner's dilemma, which has very different solutions. But really it's not like the prisoner's dilemma at all. Tragedy of the commons isn't just prisoner's dilemma with more people. I didn't use medical insurance as an example, I meant more health and safety, food regulations, etc. I'm Canadian, I know full well that health insurance is a stupid solution to a problem that shouldn't exist >_> Okay then, tragedy of the commons works as well. Government ideally serves as a force that makes abusing the commons not profitable. While government can, and often does, fail to serve to do this, there's not really any solution that can't also be corrupted. In any case, my point was that taxes aren't inherently something that makes people do something they don't want to do. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 454: King Nothing |
| JeffreyRaze 02/26/25 11:53:54 AM #307 | foolm0r0n posted... This is such a gross misunderstanding of taxes btw, which everyone falls for. The ONLY reason taxes exist is to make people pay for things they don't want to. If people wanted to pay for it, they would pay of their own volition already (in a free market). I don't agree with this actually, at least not fully. Taxes, like most government actions, are a solution to the prisoner's dilemma on a massive scale. I'm happy to pick ally, but without collective action I'd be screwed by everyone picking to betray. The government is basically changing the payouts so that betray has a worse value than ally when it comes to things like paying for public services, following health regulations, etc, where it's in any individual's best interest to not pay for things, but if everyone pays into it things are better for everyone overall. So yeah, taxes do force people to pay for stuff they don't want to pay for, but that doesn't mean that everyone who pays taxes is being forced into it. It's often about being okay with paying for something if everyone is paying for that thing. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | I was hacked. |
| JeffreyRaze 01/06/25 2:42:45 PM #5 | Normally I'm more careful, but I've slept really badly lately. I figured malwarebytes would be enough, damn. I think I've booted them from my Gmail and discord, but my old Hotmail account is just gone and I don't dare use my computer until I can get it checked --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | I was hacked. |
| JeffreyRaze 01/06/25 2:13:02 PM #1 | If you see me posting in discord, know that it's not me. Also, I won't be able to play in the D&D session for Han's campaign tonight. I'm really annoyed right now. I got a message from a friend of a friend to test out a new metroidvania (Yoranis was the name), and thought sure. I virus scanned it, unzipped it, and virus scanned it again and nothing. And now I've got a massive fucking headache on my hands. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | What are your favorite roguelikes/roguelites? |
| JeffreyRaze 12/30/24 6:52:30 PM #43 | For a few that haven't been mentioned yet, Sundered, Wizard of Legend, and Astrea are pretty good. Sundered is a very hack and slash roguelite, with a massive emphasis on horde combat. You're going to be swarmed heavily. The rooms are randomly generated within a fixed map structure. Has a nice elder god corruption setting to it, but there's not a huge amount of variety in enemy types. I liked it a lot, and movement is so slick on the corrupted route, but it's not for everyone. Wizard of Legend is a smaller game, short runs with a nice variety of spells and builds. This isn't one that's going to be game of the year or anything, but it's very cozy. Pretty fast paced, so it's got a learning curve to it. Astrea Six Sided Oracles is a deckbuilding game but with dice instead of cards. There's lots of ways to manipulate the result, and there's fittingly enough six characters who each play pretty differently. One of the interesting mechanics is that you can use your damage to heal yourself, and if you roll badly you have to choose between damaging yourself or healing the enemy, which buffs them if they heal too much. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 447: 2016-2, Electric Boogaloo |
| JeffreyRaze 11/15/24 11:48:36 AM #204 | Naw, Saruman went woke and embraced the rainbow, so Gandalf had to step up, return to traditional values as the new white wizard, and save the day. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | What free-to-play games do you feel were the most generous to players? |
| JeffreyRaze 11/07/24 8:00:07 PM #33 | Guardian Tales is pretty good all things considered, you'll need some top-tier stuff later on in the story mode, but you can get it all pretty easily just by playing the game. Genuinely good game. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 439: Groping for Hope |
| JeffreyRaze 10/28/24 1:25:42 PM #391 | Corrik7 posted... Isnt their reasoning literally anti-trump?Would they be out for her if it was say Nikki at the head of the republican ticket. I think not and think it defeats your point here in comparison to what I said I was looking for.A big part of who Trump is is who he wants to surround himself with. His administration consistently grew less competent as people who said no to him got kicked out. The Republicans who support Kamala aren't just saying they prefer her over Trump, they're saying her administration is almost certainly going to be filled with better people. That's the pro-Kamala argument, she's shown herself to pick better people to work with her. Her teams are competent, her VP pick is good, and she's going to carry that into the presidency. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 439: Groping for Hope |
| JeffreyRaze 10/28/24 1:16:54 PM #385 | Corrik7 posted... The problem with people in this topic is that they are trying to say why Trump is a bad vote instead of really saying why Kamala is a good vote. Not being Trump doesn't really sway me as good enough reasoning. I generally prefer Republican administrations. Then your answer is that the people in those administrations have overwhelmingly come out in favor of Kamala. People whose judgment you've found sound have said that Kamala is closer to your ideals than Trump is. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 435: Capping These Topics Since 1929 |
| JeffreyRaze 10/06/24 11:44:16 AM #52 | I know people who are trying to get into local politics here, but when half the population is 60+ it's very difficult to make any headway. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 433: Post here and I, MMX, will rank you. |
| JeffreyRaze 09/18/24 1:14:26 PM #23 | There is to some extent a physical difference in brain structure between left and right leaning people, so there is an aspect of nature in there. Also I think sealioning has done a lot of damage overall in that people see what appears on the surface to be innocuous questions being attacked and people who genuinely don't know anything asking questions and getting flak for it. A lot of people ask as their first attempt to get info on something, how many times have you seen a non-political question that could be solved by five seconds on google get asked on reddit or whatever? People get pretty pissed about it in game subreddits all the time. That being said there is way less hostility than people claim there is. It's being deliberately overstated for political reasons. They provoke a response then try to hold it up as proof of intolerance. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Think of a Pokemon before entering this topic... |
| JeffreyRaze 09/04/24 7:58:00 PM #28 | I thought of Reuniclus for some reason. Pretty sure I'm dead. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 428: Do Not Call |
| JeffreyRaze 08/26/24 1:23:34 PM #486 | War isn't bad because it's war. War is bad because it causes suffering and death. So the question is whether striking the airfields will increase suffering or decrease it. In this case, Ukraine is not the aggressor and does not have the ability to end the war themselves. They can't stop the war now, so they have to try to fight the war in a way that minimizes the damage, which in this case involves crippling Russia's air capabilities. The reason surrendering isn't an option to end the war is simple, it would increase suffering more than fighting on will. Even if the direct consequences of surrender wouldn't be worse than the war, it'd almost certainly lead to Russia doing the same thing to their other neighbours, so fighting now is necessary to prevent that. Sometimes war is the least bad option. To use an obvious extreme example, stopping Hitler was worth the cost, despite how brutal WW2 was. The alternative was simply worse. As for the examples of Israel, the war on terror, etc, those were wars where the stronger side was attacking the weaker side. They could stop the war with the results being significantly less damage being done overall. They could unilaterally end things themselves, or never start them to begin with. Non-war measures would be much more effective in reducing harm, so they're not at all comparable to these cases. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 428: Do Not Call |
| JeffreyRaze 08/22/24 8:20:49 PM #127 | What's this? A DNC woefully underpopulated by bees? A large influx of bees ought to put a stop to that! --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 426: Hacks Getting Hacked |
| JeffreyRaze 08/12/24 4:40:11 PM #62 | I've gotten second in provincials, but that's mostly because only 4 people showed up. I never did learn any openings >_>. In my experience, chess is one of those games where skill difference is really obvious. You can have entire chains of A can never beat B who can't beat C, etc. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 421: Existing in the Context of All In Which We Live |
| JeffreyRaze 07/25/24 6:26:41 PM #10 | My grandmother on my father's side is Jewish, which makes Dad Jewish but not me. I believe grandma never lived in Israel though. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 414: 131 Days To Go |
| JeffreyRaze 06/30/24 7:32:24 PM #378 | For another of Biden's acomplishments that nobody hears about, he sold a large chunk of the US oil reserves to prevent a price spike, then repurchased the oil once the price settled down, both preventing runaway oil prices and earning the US some money in the process.
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| Topic | Hades 2 Early Access is out |
| JeffreyRaze 05/26/24 11:11:19 PM #175 | If you revive one of the sirens in their fight right at the end while using Judgement, you get an extra set of arcana. Accidentally made my first run with Judgement easier >_>. Only really was the equivalent of upgrading it once though, so oh well.
Anyone else need an absolute metric tonne more moondust? --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | Hades 2 Early Access is out |
| JeffreyRaze 05/23/24 2:13:54 PM #166 | Yeah, he's immune to anything that manipulates time. Anything.
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| Topic | Hades 2 Early Access is out |
| JeffreyRaze 05/19/24 11:05:53 PM #161 | I think back burner gives you backstab damage on dazed targets, so grab some daze
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| Topic | Hades 2 Early Access is out |
| JeffreyRaze 05/19/24 10:58:18 PM #159 | I was originally planning on waiting to the full release, but not being able to open this topic without fear of spoilers eventually wore down my resolve haha. I don't think there's really gonna be anything major past where I am now, so here I am.
I think my only major complaint so far is how anemic the weapons feel. A bunch of their power budget goes into the omega moves, so the basic stuff all feels weaker than I'd like. Some weapons feel like they need to be bolstered by a hammer before they feel good at all. Everything else has felt pretty damn good. The tone is a bit more sombre, which is to be expected from the plot, but the voice acting is predictably great and there's just so much stuff to do. --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
| Topic | B8 Politics Containment Topic #1: Fuck Fandom |
| JeffreyRaze 04/25/24 4:14:36 PM #59 | It's a shame this is the only way to do things now, the B8 containment topic was the one place I could get discussion on politics from people I cared to listen to. If I wanted political thoughts from people I've never seen before they're harder to avoid than to find on the rest of the internet.
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| Topic | anybody have any of the mercs wikis handy? |
| JeffreyRaze 04/22/24 1:02:57 PM #4 | Anyone have the links to Drak's journals? I keep losing them somehow >_>
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| Topic | Playing Hades, quick strategy-question. |
| JeffreyRaze 03/31/24 12:12:32 AM #52 | One of the cool things was seeing just how different my 32 heat build was compared to everyone else in the discord server. It was basically completely different for all of us.
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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 411: Presidential Election MMXX Rebirth |
| JeffreyRaze 03/08/24 11:43:01 AM #314 | In my local area we had a mayor who spent a bunch of money stopping a cold weather shelter for the homeless being built, and councillors who tried to put a pool in an estuary that was important for wildlife. Our community managed to rally together and oust them. Always remember to pay attention to the little things.
Also, not to sound like a broken record, but getting local politicians to show their stuff is how you grow your way to national politics. You're never going to get a serious presidential candidate who doesn't have a track record (on the left anyway...) --- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs |
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